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Taste of IT 26:THE CONNECTED STACKSinclair Event Center | Nov 18, 2026 The Future of IT is ConnectedAI affects data strategy. Cybersecurity shapes infrastructure. People, platforms, and business priorities influence every technology decision. Today’s technology challenges no longer exist in isolation, and neither can the conversations around them. Now in its 19th year, Taste of IT 2026 brings Ohio’s technology community together to explore how these priorities connect. Through practical sessions, real-world perspectives, and conversations with technology leaders and peers, attendees will gain insights and ideas they can bring back to their teams and organizations. Taste of IT has sold out four years in a row, bringing hundreds of technology professionals together to learn, connect, and explore what’s shaping the future of IT. |  |
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Keynote SpeakerRichard BirdPrincipal ai & identity officer, cyeraRichard Bird is Principal AI & Identity Officer at Cyera, and an advisor to Singulr AI, where he was Chief Strategy and Chief Security Officer. He has spent three decades inside the system he critiques, and came to security the way the discipline itself did, out of technology operations: a CIO before he was ever a CISO, then C-level roles in security, product, and operations across global banking, established enterprises, and start-ups. He publishes The Hacker in a Hoodie Index, a live record of what cyber incidents actually cost, and is the author of three books: Famous With 12 People, the forthcoming Built Wrong: Why Cybersecurity Keeps Failing and How We Can Rebuild It, and its companion volume The Verified Security Framework. He speaks around the world to rooms that range from dinners with boards of directors to conference halls in front of thousands. |  |
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